ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Chinese experience within the world context. It argues that the social environments and the interactions between the individuals and the state in the West and in China are distinct from each other. The chapter examines the orthodoxy of crime prevention with this paradigm shed lights on the Chinese characteristics, which other theories like the risk society theory are unable to accomplish. The paradigm of risk in the preventive shift of Western criminal justice can be analyzed from multiple angles. Risk is an approach through which more and more objects, techniques and logic are viewed and managed. The current Western criminal justice system is a myriad of actions that are both inclusive and exclusive, private and public, neoliberal and conservative. A most prevalent feature lies on the chain of coordinated actions of crime control between individuals and communities, like the “responsibilization strategy” with the government governing at a distance.
